Education

As described most recently by the researchers, health care providers, and community representatives who attended the International AIDS Conference this year, HIV/AIDS continues to exact a devastating toll on the health, economic and political infrastructure, and social fabric of communities...

GETHealth Summit Report—2014, Conference Proceedings

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2015-07-08

The GETHealth Summit brought together healthcare professionals, representatives from the technology and education sectors, academic researchers, global health experts from backgrounds including non-governmental organisations to government. This diverse group of delegates were brought together to...

Policy Guidance: The Use of Lateral-Flow Urine LAM for Diagnosis and Screening of Active TB in People Living with HIV

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2015-06-30

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WHO: The Use of Lateral-Flow Urine LAM for Diagnosis and Screening of Active TB in People Living with HIV

Background : Tests based on the detection of mycobacterial lipoarabinomannan (LAM) antigen in urine have emerged as potential point-of-care tests for tuberculosis (TB). LAM antigen is a lipopolysaccharide present in mycobacterial cell walls, which is released from metabolically active or...

High levels of tobacco-specific N-nitrosamines and nicotine in Chaini Khaini, a product marketed as snus

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2014-12-09

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Tobacco Control

Introduction: Recently, a tobacco product, Chaini Khaini, identified as snus appeared in India. The product marketing emphasizes its discreet nature and explicitly claims safety by referring to the existing evidence on Swedish snus. We here analyzed tobacco-specific nitrosamines and nicotine...

Quit history, intentions to quit, and reasons for considering quitting among tobacco users in India: Findings from the Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation India Wave 1 Survey

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2014-12-05

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Indian Journal of Cancer

Background: GATS India 2009–10 revealed that more than one-third (35%) of adults in India use tobacco in some form: 21% use smokeless tobacco, 9% smoke, and 5% are mixed users (they smoke and use smokeless tobacco), and the quit rate is very low. In an effort to decrease prevalence of tobacco use,...

Optimisation of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative to address African health-care challenges

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2014-06-25

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The Lancet Global Health

The Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) is an innovative and potentially transformative 5-year programme, established by the US Government in 2010, to increase the number of doctors to meet crucial human resource needs in sub-Saharan Africa.1 MEPI allows African institutions that...

A consortium approach to competency-based undergraduate medical education in Uganda: process, opportunities and challenges

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2014-05-15

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Education for Health

Background: Uganda, like the rest of Africa, is faced with serious health challenges including human immunodeficiency virus infection/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), other infectious diseases and increasing non-communicable diseases, yet it has a significant shortage of health...

Leveraging information technology to address the health workforce gap

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2013-11-01

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Bulletin of the World Health Organization

According to some estimates, the world needs more than 4 million additional physicians, nurses, pharmacists, laboratory technicians, midwives, community health workers (CHWs) and other front-line health workers. However, there is also a shortage of faculty that can provide high-quality...

HIV/AIDS education in traditional Indian systems of medicine: faculty perspectives

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2013-10-24

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Journal of Traditional Medicine and and Clinical Naturopathy

In India, HIV-infected individuals face numerous challenges in their search for treatments. Currently, western allopathic medicine (hereinafter ‘biomedicine’) offers antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV/AIDS and associated co-morbidities that have prolonged survival and improved quality of...

Assessment of Gutka ban in Maharashtra: findings from a focus group discussion

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2013-06-11

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International Journal of Head & Neck Surgery

According to Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) India 2009-2010, around 8.3% (13.4% among male and 2.5% amongfemale) of people in Maharashtra are gutka users. Gutkaconsumption not only causes oral cancer, but has also beenlinked with development of oral submucous fibrosis, aprecancerous lesion...

Correlates of lower comprehension of informed consent among participants enrolled in a cohort study in Pune, India

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2013-03-15

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International Health

Background: Optimum comprehension of informed consent by research participants is essential yet challenging. This study explored correlates of lower comprehension of informed consent among 1334 participants of a cohort study aimed at estimating HIV incidence in Pune, India. ...

Assessing the evolving definition of underrepresented minority and its application in academic medicine

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2013-01-15

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United States

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Academic Medicine

Purpose: To assess how U.S. academic health centers (AHCs) define the term underrepresented minority (URM) and apply it to their diversity programs, following the 2003 revision of the Association of American Medical Colleges' (AAMC's) definition of URM. Method: In 2010...

Nutritional status and childhood growth among Korku and Warli tribes of Maharashtra: anthropometric perspective

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2013-01-01

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Explorations in Medical Anthropology

Nutritional status and childhood growth among Korku and Warli tribes of Maharashtra: anthropometric perspective.

Contracting in specialists for emergency obstetric care—does it work in rural India?

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2012-12-31

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BMC Health Services Research

Abstract Background: Contracting in private sector is promoted in developing countries facing human resources shortages as a challenge to reduce maternal mortality. This study explored provision, practice, performance, barriers to execution and views about contracting in...

A novel educational strategy targeting health care workers in underserved communities in Central America to integrate HIV into primary medical care

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2012-10-24

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PLOS

Background: Current educational strategies to integrate HIV care into primary medical care in Central America have traditionally targeted managers or higher-level officials, rather than local health care workers (HCWs). We developed a complementary online and on-site interactive training...

Evaluation of a multimodal, distance learning HIV management course for clinical care providers in India

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2012-10-01

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Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care

Distance learning is an important tool for training HIV health workers. However, there is limited evidence on design and evaluation of distance learning HIV curricula and tools. We therefore designed, implemented, and evaluated a distance learning course on HIV management for clinical care...

Research capacity-building program for clinicians and staff at a community-based HIV clinic in Uganda: A pre/post evaluation

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2012-10-01

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Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Developing capacity for HIV research and clinical practice is critically needed in resource-limited countries. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a research capacity building program for community-based participants in preparation and conduct of mHealth interventions. A descriptive, cross-...

Global health education for medical students: New learning opportunities and strategies

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2012-01-17

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Medical Teacher

Background: A new course was offered to introduce basic global health concepts to all first year Johns Hopkins medical students, that took advantage of new distance learning capacity to connect medical students in Baltimore with students and faculty in Uganda, Ethiopia, Pakistan and India...

Information and communication technology and community-based health sciences training in Uganda: perceptions and experiences of educators and students

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2012-01-15

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Informatics for Health and Social Care

Chang LW, Mwanika A, Kaye D, Muhwezi WW, Nabirye RC, Mbalinda S, Okullo I, Kennedy CE, Groves S, Sisson SD, Burnham G, Bollinger RC. Information and communication technology and community-based health sciences training in Uganda: perceptions and experiences of educators and students. Inform...

Perceptions and valuation of a community-based education and services (COBES) program in Uganda

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2012-01-15

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Medical Teacher

Information and communication technology (ICT) has been advocated as a powerful tool for improving health education in low-resource settings. However, few evaluations have been performed of ICT perceptions and user experiences in low-resource settings. During late 2009, an internet-based...

Impact of a mHealth intervention for peer health workers on AIDS Care in rural Uganda: a mixed methods evaluation of a cluster-randomized trial

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2011-11-15

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AIDS and Behavior

Mobile phone access in low and middle-income countries is rapidly expanding and offers an opportunity to leverage limited human resources for health. We conducted a mixed methods evaluation of a cluster-randomized trial exploratory substudy on the impact of a mHealth (mobile phone) support...

A Cluster-Randomized Trial to Promote Combination HIV Prevention Using M-health-Supported CHWs in a High-Prevalence Fishing Community: Design and Baseline Characteristics of the mLAKE Trial in Rakai, Uganda

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2016-07-21

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Chang L, Mbabali I, Kong X, Hutton H, Long A, Thomas A, Bugos E, Ssekasanvu J, Kennedy C, Amico R, Nalugoda F, Reynolds S, Quinn T, Serwadda D, Wawer M, Gray R, Nakigozi G. A Cluster-Randomized Trial to Promote Combination HIV Prevention Using M-health-Supported CHWs in a High-Prevalence Fishing...

Outreach Workers in the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) Programme in India: Challenges and Opportunities

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2016-07-21

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Suryavanshi N , Mave V, Kadam A, Kanade S, Sivalenka S, Sampath K, Harve P, Gupta RS, Hegde A, McKenzie-White J, Gupte N, Gupta A, Bollinger RC, Shankar AV. Outreach Workers in the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) Programme in India: Challenges and Opportunities. 21st...

Rapid Diagnosis, Linkage and Treatment Initiation of Patients with Drug-resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa: The miLINC Solution to Improve Access to Care

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2016-07-20

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South Africa

Farley JE , Seiguer S, Naicker M, McKenzie-White J, Greg C, Elmi M, Stevens W, Stewart-Isherwood L. Rapid Diagnosis, Linkage and Treatment Initiation of Patients with Drug-resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa: The miLINC Solution to Improve Access to Care. 21st International AIDS Conference...

Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Diabetes mellitus among Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients in Pune, India.

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2016-07-16

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DY Patil

Golub, J., Gupta, A. Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Diabetes mellitus among Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients in Pune, India. TB2016. International AIDS Society. Durban, South Africa. 2016.

Medicine as a Bridge Between the US and India

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2016-05-21

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Gupta, A. Medicine as a Bridge Between the US and India. Indiaspora. Philadelphia, PA.

Conducting ID Research in India and Beyond

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2016-03-14

Gupta, A. Conducting ID Research in India and Beyond. ID Didactic Research Forum, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Baltimore, MD.

Combination HIV Prevention and HIV Incidence in a Ugandan Hotspot Fishing Community

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2016-02-23

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Kagaayi J, Grabowski MK, Nakigozi G, Kigozi G, Nalugoda F, Ssekubugu R, Gray RH, Serwadda D, Wawer MJ, Chang L. Combination HIV Prevention and HIV Incidence in a Ugandan Hotspot Fishing Community. Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections 2016. Boston, MA. 2016.

TB Risk Perceptions Among Medical Residents at a Tertiary Care Center in India

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2015-12-06

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Pardeshi G , Parande M, Kadam D, Chandanwale A, Deluca A, Bollinger R, Farley J, Suryavanshi N. TB Risk Perceptions Among Medical Residents at a Tertiary Care Center in India. 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health. International Union for Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. Cape Town, South Africa.

TB Outbreak among Health Care Workers and Trainees in a Tertiary-care Hospital in Pune, India

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2015-12-05

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Basavaraj A , Patil A, Kadam DB, Chandanwale A, Jain D, DeLuca A, Mave V, Bollinger R. TB Outbreak among Health Care Workers and Trainees in a Tertiary-care Hospital in Pune, India. 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health. Cape Town, South Africa.

Isoniazid Hair Concentrations in Children with TB

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2015-12-05

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Mave V, Kinikar AA, Gupte N, Nimkar S, Kagal A, Horng H, Ramachandran G, Dooley K, Gupta A. Isoniazid Hair Concentrations in Children with TB. 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health. International Union for Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. Cape Town, South Africa.

Developing a Validated Tool to Assess Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease Trainees’ Ability to Obtain and Interpret TB Diagnostics

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2015-10-11

Chida N, Gupta A, Bollinger B, Melia M. Developing a Validated Tool to Assess Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease Trainees’ Ability to Obtain and Interpret TB Diagnostics. ID Week 2015. San Diego, CA. 2015

A Man from Central America with Progressive Shortness of Breath

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2015-10-07

Chida, N. A Man from Central America with Progressive Shortness of Breath. ID Week 2015. San Diego, CA. 2015.

Global Teaching of Global Health Competencies for Medical Students in Uganda

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2015-07-15

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Bollinger, R. Global Teaching of Global Health Competencies for Medical Students in Uganda. Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Innovation Session. Harare, Zimbabwe.

Hispanic-Serving Health Professions Schools (HSHPS) 2015 Workshop

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2015-06-30

Page, K. Hispanic-Serving Health Professions Schools (HSHPS) 2015 Workshop. Hispanic-Serving Health Professions Schools (HSHPS) 2015 Workshop. HSHPS and National Institutes of Health. Bethesda, MD. 2015.

eLearning Development in the Moodle Learning Management System

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2015-05-31

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Ethiopia

McKenzie-White, J. eLearning Development in the Moodle Learning Management System. Addis Ababa College of Health Sciences. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Teaching Learners to Communicate Effectively with Limited English Proficiency Patients

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2015-04-30

Page, K. Teaching Learners to Communicate Effectively with Limited English Proficiency Patients. Institute for Excellence in Education. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Baltimore, MD.

Conducting HIV/TB Research in India: Challenges and Opportunities

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2015-04-17

Gupta, A. Conducting HIV/TB Research in India: Challenges and Opportunities. Grand Rounds, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Baltimore, MD.

Medical Education Costs Can Be Significantly Lowered Without Sacrificing Quality

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2015-04-11

Bollinger, R. Medical Education Costs Can Be Significantly Lowered Without Sacrificing Quality. Extreme Affordability Conference. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Grand Rounds

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2015-03-31

Page, K. Grand Rounds. Center for Child and Community Health Research. Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Bayview Medical Center. Baltimore, MD.

Mobilizing Research for Global Health

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2015-03-25

Bollinger, R. Mobilizing Research for Global Health. Sixth Annual CUGH Conference. Consortium of Universities for Global Health. Boston, MA.

GETHealth Summit Report—2014, Conference Proceedings

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2015-07-08

Policy Guidance: The Use of Lateral-Flow Urine LAM for Diagnosis and Screening of Active TB in People Living with HIV

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2015-06-30

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WHO: The Use of Lateral-Flow Urine LAM for Diagnosis and Screening of Active TB in People Living with HIV

High levels of tobacco-specific N-nitrosamines and nicotine in Chaini Khaini, a product marketed as snus

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2014-12-09

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Tobacco Control

Quit history, intentions to quit, and reasons for considering quitting among tobacco users in India: Findings from the Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation India Wave 1 Survey

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2014-12-05

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Indian Journal of Cancer

Optimisation of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative to address African health-care challenges

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2014-06-25

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The Lancet Global Health

A consortium approach to competency-based undergraduate medical education in Uganda: process, opportunities and challenges

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2014-05-15

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Education for Health

Leveraging information technology to address the health workforce gap

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2013-11-01

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Bulletin of the World Health Organization

HIV/AIDS education in traditional Indian systems of medicine: faculty perspectives

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2013-10-24

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Journal of Traditional Medicine and and Clinical Naturopathy

Assessment of Gutka ban in Maharashtra: findings from a focus group discussion

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2013-06-11

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International Journal of Head & Neck Surgery

Correlates of lower comprehension of informed consent among participants enrolled in a cohort study in Pune, India

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2013-03-15

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International Health

Assessing the evolving definition of underrepresented minority and its application in academic medicine

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2013-01-15

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United States

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Academic Medicine

Nutritional status and childhood growth among Korku and Warli tribes of Maharashtra: anthropometric perspective

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2013-01-01

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Explorations in Medical Anthropology

Nutritional status and childhood growth among Korku and Warli tribes of Maharashtra: anthropometric perspective.

Contracting in specialists for emergency obstetric care—does it work in rural India?

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2012-12-31

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BMC Health Services Research

A novel educational strategy targeting health care workers in underserved communities in Central America to integrate HIV into primary medical care

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2012-10-24

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PLOS

Evaluation of a multimodal, distance learning HIV management course for clinical care providers in India

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2012-10-01

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Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care

Research capacity-building program for clinicians and staff at a community-based HIV clinic in Uganda: A pre/post evaluation

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2012-10-01

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Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Global health education for medical students: New learning opportunities and strategies

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2012-01-17

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Medical Teacher

Information and communication technology and community-based health sciences training in Uganda: perceptions and experiences of educators and students

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2012-01-15

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Informatics for Health and Social Care

Perceptions and valuation of a community-based education and services (COBES) program in Uganda

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2012-01-15

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Medical Teacher

Impact of a mHealth intervention for peer health workers on AIDS Care in rural Uganda: a mixed methods evaluation of a cluster-randomized trial

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2011-11-15

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